A Technical Look at Big Data
Big data can mean a number of things—and guide business decisions in countless ways. It can involve analyzing sheer volumes…
Big Data and Your Body
A couple of weeks ago we posted about the datafication of everything, with a few examples of what can be…
5 Steps to Setting your Big Data Goals
We all have goals, or at least should. We all have goals, or at least should. I’m reminded of a…
High-Performing Predictive Analytics with R and Hadoop
I'm a bit late catching up on this, but Mario Inchosa (Revolution Analytics US Chief Scientist) gave a standing-room-only talk…
Cloudera Leads the Way in Europe [VIDEO]
Interesting findings from a survey by data processing software vendor Syncsort on 300 attendees of two Big Data conferences in Europe:…
The Datafication of People and Stuff and Things
photo courtesy of deviant art photo courtesy of deviant artSo I thought I was being original for writing a piece…
Hadoop Summit and Hortonworks Promise to Make Big Data More Engaging
Hadoop Summit is the biggest event on the West Coast centered on Hadoop, the open source technology for large-scale data…
Have Marketers Taken Big Data Too Far?
photo courtesy of motifake.comPaula Rosenblum writes a fun piece regarding the creepiness of retailers using their Big Data. photo courtesy of…
A Future for Hadoop?
I had the opportunity to catch up with Merv Adrian, Research Vice President at Gartner at last week’s Hadoop Summit. …
The Total Cost of Big Data Performance [VIDEO]
During GigaOM Structure in San Francisco, Damien Black, CEO of SQLStream, explains the different costs of the most important data…